Provides a place where individuals can learn about the evolution of rural life in Central Alberta.
Service offers:
- opportunities for individuals to experience and learn about the evolution of rural life in Central Alberta during the 1880s to 1950s
Educational school programs include:
- Pioneer Life - learn about pioneer life in central Alberta including plowing, seeding, haying, harvesting, and more
- Levers and Gears - learn how much weight can be moved with a lever or pulley, experiment at a number of stations, and apply this knowledge to graders, combines, and tractors
- Harvest - experience pioneer harvest time and see how crops were harvested, how fuel is prepared, garden harvesting, grind grain into flour, and taste preserves
Summer Day Camps include:
- feeding chickens
- making butter
- pumping water
- cooking on a wood stove
- farm chores
- exploring an 1889 log home
- weekly themes related to pioneer, nature, trades, and First Nations culture and history
Also offers:
- a calendar of events such as pie sales, old fashioned ham dinners, country fairs, lunches at the farm, the heritage breeds lawn show, barbeques, Pioneer Days Festival, and turkey suppers
- venue rental and catering